Ms Ranae von Meding:

I would like to talk about how the Senator spoke about children knowing about their conception. I think everyone here today, both the organisations we represent and our members, wants a world in which our children have access to their genetic information where at all possible and information about their births. Children are amazing. We began speaking to our five-year-old about how she was conceived from a very early age. She is five and she could tell anyone about the ins and outs of reciprocal IVF and donor assisted conception. She is very proud of it. She will often ask complete strangers whether they knew she was an egg in moms tummy. She will tell them a doctor took that out and there was a donor, and she was an embryo and that embryo was put into mama's tummy and then mama grew her . It gets much more graphic than that at that point. She is incredible. We feel that is very important. That is part of her story and part if who she is. That is why she is here. We all fully agree and support that. I feel some people's allusion to historical practices within the State around children is misguided. It is a completely different situation that we are representing here today. We want to support women, children and our families. Anybody who thinks otherwise is completely misguided in what we are trying to do.